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WILLIAM OF NANGLS (d. 1300)

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WILLIAM OF NANGLS (d. 1300)  , See also:French chronicler, was a See also:monk in the See also:abbey of St See also:Denis . About 1285 he was placed in See also:charge of the abbey library as custos cartarum, and he died in See also:June or See also:July 1300 . Having doubtless done some See also:work on the Latin See also:manuscripts on which the Grandes Chroniques de See also:France are based, See also:William wrote a See also:long Chronicon, dealing with the See also:history of the See also:world from the creation until 1300 . For the See also:period before 1113 this work merely repeats that of See also:Sigebert of See also:Gembloux and others; but after this date it contains some new and valuable See also:matter . William's other writings are: Gesta Ludovici IX.; Gesta See also:Philippi III., sive Audacis; Chronicon abbreviatum regum Francorum; and a French See also:translation of the same work written for the laity . Making use of the large See also:store of manuscripts at St Denis, William was a compiler rather than an author, and with the exception of the latter See also:part of the Chronicon his writings do not add materially to our know-ledge of the See also:time . Both his See also:chronicles, however, became very popular and found several continuators, See also:Jean de See also:Joinville being among thosewho made use of the Chronicon . This work from 1113 to 1300, with continuations to 1368, has been edited by H . Geraud for the Societe de l'histoire de France (See also:Paris, 1843), and practically all William's writings are found in tome xx. of Dom Bouquet's Recueil See also:des lzistoriens des Gaines et de la France (Paris, 1738–1876) . A French translation of the Chronicon is in tome Niii. of See also:Guizot's Collection des memoiresrelatifs d l'histoire de France (Paris, 1823–1835) . See A . See also:Potthast, Bibliotheca historica (See also:Berlin, 1896) ; and A .

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Molinier, See also:Les See also:Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii . (Paris, 1903) . WILLIAM OF See also:NEWBURGH (d. c . 1198), or, as he is sometimes styled, Guillelmus Parvus, See also:English ecclesiastic and chronicler, was a See also:canon of the Augustinian priory of Newburgh in the See also:North See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire . He was See also:born about 1136, and lived at Newburgh from his boyhood . Shortly before 1196 he began his Historia rerum Anglicarum . This work, divided into five books, covers the period io66–r 198 . A See also:great part of it is derived from known sources, especially from See also:Henry of See also:Huntingdon, See also:Jordan Fantosme, the See also:Itinerarium regis Ricardi, or its French See also:original, and a lost See also:account, by See also:Anselm the See also:chaplain, of the captivity of See also:Richard I . The value of Newburgh's work lies in his estimates of men and situations . Except for the years 1154–1173 and the reign of Richard he records few facts which cannot be found elsewhere; and in matters of detail he is prone to inaccuracy . But his See also:political insight and his impartiality entitle him to a high See also:place among the historians of the 12th See also:century . See the See also:editions of the Historia by H .

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Hamilton (2 vols., See also:London, 1856) and by R . Howlett in Chronicles of the Reigns of See also:Stephen, &c . (" Rolls " See also:series, 1884-1885), vols. i. and ii . In the latter edition a continuation, the Annales Furnesienses (1190-1298), composed by a monk of See also:Furness Abbey, See also:Lancashire, is also given . See also See also:Sir T . D . See also:Hardy's Descriptive See also:Catalogue (" Rolls " series, 1865), ii. p . 512: and H . E . See also:Salter in the English See also:Historical See also:Review, vol. xxii . (1907) .

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